What if they say something stupid?
That narrow rock wall between art and artist might cave in and destroy my ability to enjoy watching anything.
Gaze across the media landscape, and you’ll notice thatactors seem intent on doing everything except just acting.
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Yet when many of them talk, they sometimes sound like jocks who took a community college acting class.
But I could be off there.
They could be totally interesting and charismatic people in real life, but I’ll never know.
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Daniel Day-Lewisisn’t allowed to be a real person.
He’s Daniel Plainview, Reynolds Woodcock, Bill ‘The Butcher Cutting, and Abraham Lincoln.
This may sound as if I’m prejudiced against actors or something, and I am.
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There Should Be More Distance Between Actors and Fans
Are there exceptions?
Of course.Plenty of actors are charismatic and interesting people in interviews.
And maybe they weren’t at that time and we both survived.
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That’s what I’m all about.
There was a massive separation between the public and Hollywood.
Its perhaps not a coincidence that some of my favorite actors clearly hate doing interviews as well.
That makes two of us.
